10 Most Badass Wrestlers In The World Today
1. Tomohiro Ishii
There are two areas in which Tomohiro Ishii is the best wrestler in the world:-
1. Selling.
2. Projecting pure, unfiltered badassery.
The first point informs the second. Being a badass isn't just about dishing out a beating, but taking one too. The 'Stone Pitbull' draws you into his struggle by wincing, grunting, groaning, and clinging onto a targeted limb as if it's about to fall off, and for his ability to sustain exorbitant amounts of punishment but still get up, bark in his opponent's face, and go toe-to-toe with them with hardnosed defiance, Ishii comes off tougher than $1 steak. That it takes an army's worth of force to put him down makes this downright scary, too. It's like hitting an indestructible zombie.
A disciple of Riki Choshu and legendary puroresu curmudgeon Genichiro Tenryu, Ishii is harder than granite. There's a reason Wrestling Observer readers have voted him Best Brawler for each of the past five years. Stiffness, grit, and occasional nastiness mesh with a bruising Strong Style moveset to make Ishii wrestling's one true bludgeon brother. It's a perfect cocktail of badassery that ensures his name's always mentioned in any credible "best in the world" discussion.